June 2016

June 16, 2016

ON PATRIOTISM

Patriots irk me. They seem to fail to realize that the country they so love is only interested in taking their money, forcing them to obey idiotic laws, and if opportune sending them or their children off to be snuffed in one utterly pointless war or another. As H.L. Mencken once said, "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."